Patents by Inventor Hideaki Fukutome

Hideaki Fukutome has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8311768
    Abstract: A step count measuring system includes a pedometer and a step count managing apparatus which are able to communicate with each other. In the pedometer, a step count value sequentially detected for each unit of time is stored, and a time counted in the pedometer is stored as first time data by being brought into associated with each of the step count values. When a battery is replaced in the pedometer, a reset is executed to start initialization processing, and the time stored as first time data is stored as second time data which can be discriminated from the first time data. A recording time of each of the step count values being associated with the first time data before the initialization processing is set on the basis of the time counted by the step count managing apparatus, and a recording time of each of the step count values being associated with the second time data after the initialization processing is set on the basis of the second time data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignees: Nintendo Co., Ltd., Creatures Inc.
    Inventors: Hideaki Fukutome, Naoya Morimura, Hirofumi Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20090323888
    Abstract: A step count measuring system includes a pedometer and a step count managing apparatus which are able to communicate, with each other. In the pedometer, a step count value sequentially detected for each unit of time is stored, and a time counted in the pedometer is stored as first time data by being brought into associated with each of the step count values. When a battery is replaced in the pedometer, a reset is executed to start initialization processing, and the time stored as first time data is stored as second time data which can be discriminated from the first time data. A recording time of each of the step count values being associated with the first time data before the initialization processing is set on the basis of the time counted by the step count managing apparatus, and a recording time of each of the step count values being associated with the second time data after the initialization processing is set on the basis of the second time data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Hideaki Fukutome, Naoya Morimura, Hirofumi Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 7367882
    Abstract: The preset invention provides a game system wherein data is prepared for each stage to execute plural stages separately. When a user has made a predetermined result in one stage, the user progresses to the next stage. The game executes each stage in a predetermined sequence. When a predetermined condition for ability improvement is satisfied, a parameter specifying the ability of a game character is increased. The game allows the user to select one stage from the plural stages out of the predetermined sequence, and the selected stage is executed with the parameter specifying the character ability set to a value below that which would be expected for the selected stage, for example, an initial value for a first stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Konami Corporation
    Inventor: Hideaki Fukutome
  • Publication number: 20030109297
    Abstract: The preset invention provides the game system that both the beginners and the seniors are satisfied with without increasing the workload of game-software developers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2002
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Applicants: Konami Corporation, Mobile 21 Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideaki Fukutome